How To Use keratinize In A Sentence
- When oestrogen levels are high the epithelial cells become keratinized or cornified, an effect reversed by progesterone.
- The stratum corneum, the top layer, is composed of dead keratinized cells.
- [1] As the cells in the three regions begin to keratinize and harden, they are integrated into the dead (keratinized) portion of the hair fiber; new hair cells in the hair bulb region push the dead shaft upwards towards the skin's surface. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- Unlike most turtles, the carapace of a softshell is covered with leathery skin instead of keratinized plates. Reptile families
- A recent study looking at sensitivity of the penis in the circumcised and uncircumcised male found that the five most sensitive areas on the penis are removed at circumcision, and that the keratinized glans on the circumcised penis is less sensitive than the foreskin-protected, mucosa-lined glans on the uncircumcised penis. Ali A. Rizvi: Male Circumcision and the HIV/AIDS Myth
- Earliest changes in the hair follicle occur when the follicular canal becomes blocked with abnormally keratinized desquamating cells.
- From page 141 on: It turns out that human horns, anomalous growths consisting entirely of concentric layers of keratinized epidermal cells with a tendency to originate on the sites of sebaceous cysts, warts, or scars, are 'far more frequent than ordinarily supposed,' according to Drs. George Gould and Walter Pyle (Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine; New York, Julian Press, 1956, p. 222). Human horns
- And, in fact, they aren't exactly horns: they share the keratinized gloss and surface of standard animal horns, but they lack the bony core. Human horns
- Amphibian skin thus appears to have limited options for waterproofing, because it is thin, poorly keratinized, and therefore supple.
- Carotenoids are taken up from blood circulation by rhamphothecal keratinocytes in the bill, accumulated in lipoid droplets, and distributed diffusely through the horny, keratinized beak tissue.
